Former PAISD employee charged with improper relationship to appear in court today

Jean Hardy, the former Memorial High School registrar who was charged with improper relationship between an educator and student, is scheduled to appear in Judge Layne Walker’s court this morning – her first court appearance since being charged in January.

According to reports, a police officer found Hardy, 57, and a 17-year-old boy engaged in a sex act in a car near the downtown Port Arthur seawall around 8 p.m. on Jan. 8. Hardy was arrested and released the next day on a $75,000 bond.

If convicted of the second-degree felony, Hardy faces up to 20 years in prison.